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WCMH Columbus on MSNNBC4 Sports Extra: Milan-Cortina Olympics approaching, LA 2028 schedule setOn this week’s edition of NBC4 Sports Extra, digital reporter David DeGuzman looks ahead to the upcoming Winter Olympics next year in Milan-Cortina, Italy and even goes further with a lookahead to the Los Angeles 2028 summer games.
Los Angeles 2028 Olympics organizers announced the daily competition schedule for the Games that will have a record 351 medal events. Action starts on Wednesday, July 12, 2028 -- two days before the Opening Ceremony, as usual -- with preliminary competition in basketball, cricket, field hockey, handball, rugby sevens, soccer and water polo.
Cricket will officially return to the Olympic Games at Los Angeles 2028 - 128 years after its debut in Paris 1900, when Great Britain claimed gold in a one-off match against France - with the dates of
After Los Angeles agreed nearly a decade ago to host the 2028 Olympics, organizers committed $160 million to local youth sports. That investment has reduced the cost of Los Angeles Recreation and Parks programs and brought new sports, including table tennis, fencing, and archery, to kids throughout the city.
Cricket makes its return to the Olympics more than a century after making its lone appearance in the 1900 Paris Games, where two teams from Great Britain and France clashed in a one-off two-day match.